Dual AMD MP unstable under heavy load when smp is active
Danny Fullerton
northox at mantor.org
Wed Mar 5 03:32:03 UTC 2008
Hello Paul,
I would like to known if done those test with the recent FreeBSD 7.0? I
seen lots of work in the SMP area of this release and I'm wondering if I
could have better chance with this version.
thanks,
dmesg with smp on (GENERIC + option smp):
Copyright (c) 1992-2008 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.
FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE-p1 #0: Wed Feb 27 21:11:40 EST 2008
root at megatron.mantor.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MEGATRONTEST
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) MP 2200+ (1800.07-MHz 686-class CPU)
Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x680 Stepping = 0
Features=0x383fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE>
AMD Features=0xc0480800<SYSCALL,MP,MMX+,3DNow!+,3DNow!>
real memory = 3220701184 (3071 MB)
avail memory = 3146387456 (3000 MB)
ACPI APIC Table: <PTLTD APIC >
FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs
cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 1
cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 0
MADT: Forcing active-low polarity and level trigger for SCI
ioapic0 <Version 1.1> irqs 0-23 on motherboard
kbd1 at kbdmux0
ath_hal: 0.9.20.3 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413)
hptrr: HPT RocketRAID controller driver v1.1 (Feb 27 2008 21:11:16)
acpi0: <PTLTD RSDT> on motherboard
acpi0: Power Button (fixed)
acpi0: Sleep Button (fixed)
Timecounter "ACPI-safe" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 850
acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x8008-0x800b on acpi0
cpu0: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0
cpu1: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0
acpi_button0: <Power Button> on acpi0
pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port
0xcf8-0xcff,0x8000-0x807f,0x8080-0x80ff iomem 0xd8000-0xdbfff on acpi0
pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0
agp0: <AMD 762 host to AGP bridge> port 0x1810-0x1813 mem
0xf8000000-0xfbffffff,0xf6210000-0xf6210fff at device 0.0 on pci0
pcib1: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0
pci1: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib1
isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 7.0 on pci0
isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
atapci0: <AMD 768 UDMA100 controller> port
0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0xf000-0xf00f at device 7.1 on pci0
ata0: <ATA channel 0> on atapci0
ata1: <ATA channel 1> on atapci0
pci0: <bridge> at device 7.3 (no driver attached)
amr0: <LSILogic MegaRAID 1.53> mem 0xf6200000-0xf620ffff irq 20 at
device 8.0 on pci0
amr0: delete logical drives supported by controller
amr0: <LSILogic PERC 4/DC> Firmware 350O, BIOS 1.09, 128MB RAM
ahc0: <Adaptec aic7899 Ultra160 SCSI adapter> port 0x1000-0x10ff mem
0xf4000000-0xf4000fff irq 20 at device 10.0 on pci0
ahc0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
aic7899: Ultra160 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs
ahc1: <Adaptec aic7899 Ultra160 SCSI adapter> port 0x1400-0x14ff mem
0xf4001000-0xf4001fff irq 21 at device 10.1 on pci0
ahc1: [GIANT-LOCKED]
aic7899: Ultra160 Wide Channel B, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs
pcib2: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 16.0 on pci0
pci2: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib2
ohci0: <OHCI (generic) USB controller> mem 0xf4100000-0xf4100fff irq 19
at device 0.0 on pci2
ohci0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
usb0: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support
usb0: SMM does not respond, resetting
usb0: <OHCI (generic) USB controller> on ohci0
usb0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0: AMD OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 4 ports with 4 removable, self powered
pci2: <display, VGA> at device 7.0 (no driver attached)
xl0: <3Com 3c980C Fast Etherlink XL> port 0x2400-0x247f mem
0xf4102000-0xf410207f irq 18 at device 8.0 on pci2
miibus0: <MII bus> on xl0
ukphy0: <Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface> on miibus0
ukphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
xl0: Ethernet address: 00:e0:81:22:2e:c4
xl1: <3Com 3c980C Fast Etherlink XL> port 0x2480-0x24ff mem
0xf4102400-0xf410247f irq 19 at device 9.0 on pci2
miibus1: <MII bus> on xl1
ukphy1: <Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface> on miibus1
ukphy1: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
xl1: Ethernet address: 00:e0:81:22:2e:c5
atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> port 0x60,0x64 irq 1 on acpi0
atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> irq 1 on atkbdc0
kbd0 at atkbd0
atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
fdc0: <floppy drive controller> port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0
fdc0: does not respond
device_attach: fdc0 attach returned 6
fdc0: <floppy drive controller> port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0
fdc0: does not respond
device_attach: fdc0 attach returned 6
pmtimer0 on isa0
orm0: <ISA Option ROMs> at iomem
0xc0000-0xc7fff,0xc8000-0xc87ff,0xc8800-0xc8fff,0xe0000-0xe3fff on isa0
ppc0: parallel port not found.
sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
sio0: configured irq 4 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
sio0: port may not be enabled
sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0
sio0: type 8250 or not responding
sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
sio1: port may not be enabled
vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec
hptrr: no controller detected.
Waiting 5 seconds for SCSI devices to settle
ad0: 476940MB <WDC WD5000AAKB-00UKA0 07.01N01> at ata0-master UDMA100
amr0: delete logical drives supported by controller
amrd0: <LSILogic MegaRAID logical drive> on amr0
amrd0: 139900MB (286515200 sectors) RAID 1 (optimal)
SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched!
Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/amrd0s1a
---
Danny Fullerton
Mantor Organization
Paul Missman wrote:
>
> Danny,
>
> I don't know what the bug is, but it does exist.
>
> I have an IBM x3455 with 2 Opteron dual core processors. Under heavy
> loads it crashes. As a step in debugging, I unplugged one of the
> processors, and the problem went away. I switched to Centos version
> 4, and it operates perfectly.
>
> In addition to FreeBSD, the problem also exists in Fedora Core.
>
> Of the OSes I tested, only Redhat and Centos worked correctly on the
> x3455.
>
> I didn't try Windows, so I can't say whether or not it operates
> properly on this system.
>
> Unfortunately, that is all I know about the issue.
>
> Paul Missman
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Danny Fullerton" <northox at mantor.org>
> To: <freebsd-smp at freebsd.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 9:05 PM
> Subject: Dual AMD MP unstable under heavy load when smp is active
>
>
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I been having quite some trouble finding a problem whom seem to be
>> related with SMP on one of my production server.
>>
>> The problem is not easily reproducible but the best way I found was to
>> fire up "make buildworld" while having some other things going on
>> (mysql, apache, bind, jails, etc). When SMP is active, the compile will
>> end up with a segfault or, quite rarely, end up with a crash. I recently
>> configure the crash device but still was unable to recreate a full
>> system crash.
>>
>> At first, I thought it was related to the memory so I done some test and
>> changed most DIMM but ultimately, the problem was sill there. To pin
>> point the problem, I first tried to add options to the GENERIC kernel
>> witch I found to be stable. That's how I found that it was related to
>> SMP. I then tried mixing some other thing like reducing the driver in
>> the kernel to the minimum I could for different reason. One of them is
>> that the motherboard is a "Tyan thunder K7X"
>> (http://www.tyan.com/archive/products/html/thunderk7x.html) and it has
>> an onbord adaptec SCSI controller which I don't use. Since the driver
>> used for this adapter is not MP safe, I tried disabling it via the BIOS
>> and/or by disabling the driver in the kernel but it had no effect. The
>> actual SCSI adapter in used is the Dell 4/DC (LSILogic MegaRAID) you can
>> see in the dmesg.
>>
>> Now I have no clue on how I could further debug this problem.
>>
>> dmesg from generic kernel:
>>
>> Copyright (c) 1992-2008 The FreeBSD Project.
>> Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
>> The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
>> FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.
>> FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE-p1 #0: Wed Feb 27 07:56:51 EST 2008
>> root at megatron.mantor.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
>> ACPI APIC Table: <PTLTD APIC >
>> Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
>> CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) MP 2200+ (1800.07-MHz 686-class CPU)
>> Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x680 Stepping = 0
>>
>> Features=0x383fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE>
>>
>> AMD Features=0xc0480800<SYSCALL,MP,MMX+,3DNow!+,3DNow!>
>> real memory = 3220701184 (3071 MB)
>> avail memory = 3150741504 (3004 MB)
>> MADT: Forcing active-low polarity and level trigger for SCI
>> ioapic0 <Version 1.1> irqs 0-23 on motherboard
>> kbd1 at kbdmux0
>> ath_hal: 0.9.20.3 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413,
>> RF5413)
>> hptrr: HPT RocketRAID controller driver v1.1 (Feb 27 2008 07:56:28)
>> acpi0: <PTLTD RSDT> on motherboard
>> acpi0: Power Button (fixed)
>> acpi0: Sleep Button (fixed)
>> Timecounter "ACPI-safe" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 850
>> acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x8008-0x800b on acpi0
>> cpu0: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0
>> acpi_button0: <Power Button> on acpi0
>> pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port
>> 0xcf8-0xcff,0x8000-0x807f,0x8080-0x80ff iomem 0xd8000-0xdbfff on acpi0
>> pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0
>> agp0: <AMD 762 host to AGP bridge> port 0x1810-0x1813 mem
>> 0xf8000000-0xfbffffff,0xf6210000-0xf6210fff at device 0.0 on pci0
>> pcib1: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0
>> pci1: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib1
>> isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 7.0 on pci0
>> isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
>> atapci0: <AMD 768 UDMA100 controller> port
>> 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0xf000-0xf00f at device 7.1 on pci0
>> ata0: <ATA channel 0> on atapci0
>> ata1: <ATA channel 1> on atapci0
>> pci0: <bridge> at device 7.3 (no driver attached)
>> amr0: <LSILogic MegaRAID 1.53> mem 0xf6200000-0xf620ffff irq 20 at
>> device 8.0 on pci0
>> amr0: delete logical drives supported by controller
>> amr0: <LSILogic PERC 4/DC> Firmware 350O, BIOS 1.09, 128MB RAM
>> ahc0: <Adaptec aic7899 Ultra160 SCSI adapter> port 0x1000-0x10ff mem
>> 0xf4000000-0xf4000fff irq 20 at device 10.0 on pci0
>> ahc0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
>> aic7899: Ultra160 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs
>> ahc1: <Adaptec aic7899 Ultra160 SCSI adapter> port 0x1400-0x14ff mem
>> 0xf4001000-0xf4001fff irq 21 at device 10.1 on pci0
>> ahc1: [GIANT-LOCKED]
>> aic7899: Ultra160 Wide Channel B, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs
>> pcib2: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 16.0 on pci0
>> pci2: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib2
>> ohci0: <OHCI (generic) USB controller> mem 0xf4100000-0xf4100fff irq 19
>> at device 0.0 on pci2
>> ohci0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
>> usb0: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support
>> usb0: SMM does not respond, resetting
>> usb0: <OHCI (generic) USB controller> on ohci0
>> usb0: USB revision 1.0
>> uhub0: AMD OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
>> uhub0: 4 ports with 4 removable, self powered
>> pci2: <display, VGA> at device 7.0 (no driver attached)
>> xl0: <3Com 3c980C Fast Etherlink XL> port 0x2400-0x247f mem
>> 0xf4102000-0xf410207f irq 18 at device 8.0 on pci2
>> miibus0: <MII bus> on xl0
>> ukphy0: <Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface> on miibus0
>> ukphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
>> xl0: Ethernet address: 00:e0:81:22:2e:c4
>> xl1: <3Com 3c980C Fast Etherlink XL> port 0x2480-0x24ff mem
>> 0xf4102400-0xf410247f irq 19 at device 9.0 on pci2
>> miibus1: <MII bus> on xl1
>> ukphy1: <Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface> on miibus1
>> ukphy1: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
>> xl1: Ethernet address: 00:e0:81:22:2e:c5
>> atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> port 0x60,0x64 irq 1 on acpi0
>> atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> irq 1 on atkbdc0
>> kbd0 at atkbd0
>> atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
>> fdc0: <floppy drive controller> port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on
>> acpi0
>> fdc0: does not respond
>> device_attach: fdc0 attach returned 6
>> fdc0: <floppy drive controller> port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on
>> acpi0
>> fdc0: does not respond
>> device_attach: fdc0 attach returned 6
>> pmtimer0 on isa0
>> orm0: <ISA Option ROMs> at iomem
>> 0xc0000-0xc7fff,0xc8000-0xc87ff,0xc8800-0xc8fff,0xe0000-0xe3fff on isa0
>> ppc0: parallel port not found.
>> sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
>> sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
>> sio0: configured irq 4 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
>> sio0: port may not be enabled
>> sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0
>> sio0: type 8250 or not responding
>> sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
>> sio1: port may not be enabled
>> vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on
>> isa0
>> Timecounter "TSC" frequency 1800073530 Hz quality 800
>> Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec
>> hptrr: no controller detected.
>> Waiting 5 seconds for SCSI devices to settle
>> ad0: 476940MB <WDC WD5000AAKB-00UKA0 07.01N01> at ata0-master UDMA100
>> amr0: delete logical drives supported by controller
>> amrd0: <LSILogic MegaRAID logical drive> on amr0
>> amrd0: 139900MB (286515200 sectors) RAID 1 (optimal)
>> Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/amrd0s1a
>>
>> kldstat:
>>
>> Id Refs Address Size Name
>> 1 10 0xc0400000 7a05b0 kernel
>> 2 1 0xc0ba1000 5c304 acpi.ko
>> 3 1 0xc8093000 3000 fdescfs.ko
>> 4 1 0xc8106000 3000 pflog.ko
>> 5 1 0xc8109000 2d000 pf.ko
>> 6 1 0xc817b000 19000 linux.ko
>>
>> If you have any idea or you need more information to diagnosis the
>> problem please let me known.
>>
>> regards,
>>
>> ---
>> Danny Fullerton
>> Mantor Organization
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